Mineral beneficiation key to job creation
Friday, December 16, 2016
Honourably honest: Madigele says Botswana is at cross roads
This week Madigele delivered a well thought out and impassionate response to the State of the Nation Address challenging government to look deeper into terms of copper, soda ash and coal as the mineral industry value chain remains unexploited. Consequently, he said, endless employment opportunities as well as growth prospects, are buried in there.
He said extremely small copper components (nanoparticles or nanomaterial) are very invaluable in pesticides manufacturing. Madigele further said this could see double functions as both an employment creation and improving the agricultural sector.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...